NOAA's National Weather Service Declares Packers StormReady

It won't slow a blitzing safety, but recent action by the Green Bay Packers will help keep
football fans safer should severe weather occur during a game at Lambeau Field.

The Packers organization adopted a rigorous set of detection and warning criteria to provide protection from severe weather for the future. As a result, the Packers' stadium is being recognized by the National Weather Service as StormReady . -- only the second National Football League facility to attain the distinction and the first in the National Conference.

National Weather Service Central Region director Lynn P. Maximuk and Gary R. Austin, meteorologist in charge of NOAA's Green Bay National Weather Service office, will present a StormReady plaque and certificate to Packers officials during a 1 p.m. CDT May 20 ceremony at Lambeau Field.

"StormReady encourages communities to take a new, proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations and public awareness," Maximuk..